The first Geospatial CSS Conference

Thanks to everyone who made our first Geospatial Computational Social Science Conference a success! We had people attending from Facebook, Google, eBay, Columbia University, Penn State, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, UC Los Angeles, UC San Francisco, and, of course, Stanford. This was a particularly exciting event, as it was the 5th in the series of computational social science conferences which started 2 years ago. Since that first conference in 2012, the computational social science community at Stanford and beyond has grown; it has become more even more innovative, and even more interconnected. Through these conferences we’ve been able to build a network of interdisciplinary and industry colleagues across the bay area, and we’ve been able to address some really interesting topics. Read more.

Christof Brandtner

Jamy Li

SocInfo 2014

The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from November 10th to November 13th. SocInfo is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. Read more.